A Comparative Analysis of the Migration Policies of the Former Yugoslavia's Successor States

Granter

University of ZagrebThe Faculty of Political Science

Lower level organizational units

Department of International Relations and Security Studies

Place

Zagreb

State

Croatia

Scientific field, discipline, subdiscipline

SOCIAL SCIENCESPolitical ScienceInternational Relations and National Security

Study programme type

university

Study level

graduate

Study programme

Political Science

Academic title abbreviation

mag. polit.

Genre

master's thesis

Language

Croatian

Defense date

2017-09-21

Parallel abstract (English)

Migration movements have been a constant feature of human history, wheather voluntary or forced. However, in the late 2015 Europe was faced with refugee crisis caused by long – term transition process in Middle East and North Africa. That transition process caused Civil war in Syria and Libya and instability in neighboring countries. A huge number of migrants from Middle East, Africa and Asia headed to Europe with the aim to reach most developed countries: Germany, Sweden, Norway etc. Countries which gained their independence with desintergration of Yugoslavia can be found on the path from Turkey and Greece towards countries as far as Sweden. Althought some of the states that have been createdafter the desintergration of Yugoslavia are already memeber states of the European Union and NATO, this membership has not madethe confrontation with the refugee crisiseasier for them.Besides that, most of the countries consideredare transit countries. Lack of resources and institutional capacities, weak coordination and disagreement with other countries are only a few of the challenges that considered countries are facing. Because of this issues, this work compares migration policies of sthe tates that arose with the dissolution of Yugolavia and can be found on Balkan route, but it also includes Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.